Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Operating Systems - General

Distributed Intelligent Systems: A Coordination Perspective comprehensively answers commonly asked questions about coordination in agent-oriented distributed systems. Characterizing the state-of-the-art research in the field of coordination with regard to the development of distributed agent-oriented systems is a particularly complex endeavour; while existing books deal with specific aspects of coordination, the major contribution of this book lies in the attempt to provide an in-depth review covering a wide range of issues regarding multi-agent coordination in Distributed Artificial...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust, FAST 2005, held in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in July 2005.

The 17 revised papers presented together with the extended abstract of 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers focus on formal aspects in security and trust policy models, security protocol design and analysis, formal models of trust and reputation, logics for security and trust, distributed trust management systems, trust-based reasoning,...

Based on research and industry experience, this book structures the issues pertaining to grid computing security into three main categories: architecture-related, infrastructure-related, and management-related issues. It discusses all three categories in detail, presents existing solutions, standards, and products, and pinpoints their shortcomings and open questions. Together with a brief introduction into grid computing in general and underlying security technologies, this book offers the first concise and detailed introduction to this important area, targeting professionals in the grid...

Die Autoren erlautern die konzeptionellen und technischen Grundlagen des Themas IT-Sicherheit anhand anschaulicher Beispiele. Im Fokus stehen dabei die praktische Verwendbarkeit realitatsnaher Konzepte und Techniken. Hierzu werden ebenfalls aktuelle Standards erlautert und eingebunden.

Um die Komplexitat des Themas und seine Abhangigkeiten darzustellen, werden die Integration der einzelnen Bausteine sowie der Betrieb eines solchen Verbundes von IT-Komponenten sowohl aus technischer als auch administrativer Sicht und unter dem Aspekt der Integration in eine...

This book presents the technical challenges offered by P2P systems, and the means that have been proposed to address them. It provides a single source for practitioners, researchers and students on the state-of-the-art on this subject.